7th Grade ELA Week of January 21-25, 2013 Monday, 1/21/13 Martin Luther King Jr. Day—No School J
Tuesday, 1/22/13 Daily Objective: “I will…
Assess my current knowledge & familiarity of U5P2 words
Find contextual support for all answers.
Self-evaluate my abilities on a Practice OAA and log progress
Procedure:
Copy HW into agenda
What is/are today’s objective(s)?
Book check: Every student was supposed to have a personal copy of Watsons Go to Birmingham by today!!!!
Take U5P2 pretest
Discuss/correct answers
Pass back Practice OAAs from last week
Match students with partners to discuss their answers for the section titled, “What is it?”
Instruct students to use a highlighter to find contextual evidence in the passage to support all answers and/or to disprove possible answers that can be eliminated.
Regroup as a class to call on volunteers to share answers & contextual evidence (correct them as we go along)
Update Results Log with “What is it?” score (4 multiple choice questions + 2 short response = 6 pts)
Turn-in before end of the period
Distribute and begin Watsons Go to Birmingham Book Preview/Scavenger Hunt” to be completed independently and/or with someone else who has a book.
HW:
Word Wisdom pages 100—105 due Thursday (It’s a shortened week again, so notice the change)
Prepare for WW U5P2 posttest on Friday
Finish Scavenger Hunt, if needed.
Bring Watsons book to class DAILY!
Wednesday, 1/23/13 Daily Objective: “I will…
Understand the historical background in Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963
Predict what the book will be about, based on its time period, background knowledge and the cover’s illustrations.
Procedure:
Copy HW into agenda
What is/are today’s objective(s)?
Assign new quarter seats.
Share and discuss responses to the “Book Preview/Scavenger Hunt” for Watsons
Choose volunteers to read “In Memory of Four Little Girls” (class copy of article)
Discuss main ideas, reactions, and predictions as to why our author of Watsons wrote this book in memory of those four girls—What’s the connection?
Discuss background knowledge of Civil Rights Movement.
Read and discuss “Background- Civil Rights Movement”
HW:
WW pages 100-105 due tomorrow; prepare for Friday’s U5P2 posttest
Bring Watsons book to class DAILY!
Thursday, 1/24/13 Daily Objective: “I will…
Assess U5P2 Word Wisdom understanding & preparedness for tomorrow’s quiz
Understand the historical background in Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963
Analyze the writer’s inspiration for writing the book
Procedure:
Copy HW into agenda
What is/are today’s objective(s)?
Check WW pages 100-105 with a student leader volunteer (while I come around to stamp)
Finish reading “In Memory of Four Little Girls” and/or “Civil Rights Movement” articles from yesterday, if necessary.
Distribute Watsons Pre-reading Discussion/Activity handouts and assign students alternating numbers (1 or 2)
#1s will create an outer ring/circle around the room
#2s will mirror #1s (face them) on the inside of the circle
Students will have 1-3 minutes to discuss a discussion question (determined and called out by the teacher) on the handout. When the bell is rung, #2s will move one space to the left while #1s remain in place. The process will repeat until all 7 questions are discussed and/or time is up
Return to seats and choose on small selection of student to describe their experience, favorite question and response.
Distribute “Christopher Paul Curtis, Biography” handout—call on volunteers to read. Pause to highlight specific connections that need to be remembered for later.
Begin reading/listening to Chapter 1 of Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963.
HW:
Study for U5P2 posttest tomorrow.
Friday, 1/25/13 Daily Objective: “I will…
Demonstrate mastery of U5P2 words used in context
Procedure:
Copy HW into agenda
What is/are today’s objective(s)?
Take U5P2 posttest
Grade together, if time.
Revisit “how to take annotated notes”
Put a box/square around information about the setting (Time/Place)
Place a double underline beneath words/information related to characterization
Circle letters of words demonstrating alliteration.
Highlight examples of figurative language, when found. Write a subscript of the letter representing what type it is. For example, O for onomatopoeia, P for personification, S for simile, M for metaphor, H for hyperbole.
Week of January 21-25, 2013
Monday, 1/21/13
Martin Luther King Jr. Day—No School J
Tuesday, 1/22/13
Daily Objective:
“I will…
- Assess my current knowledge & familiarity of U5P2 words
- Find contextual support for all answers.
- Self-evaluate my abilities on a Practice OAA and log progress
Procedure:- Copy HW into agenda
- What is/are today’s objective(s)?
- Book check: Every student was supposed to have a personal copy of Watsons Go to Birmingham by today!!!!
- Take U5P2 pretest
- Discuss/correct answers
- Pass back Practice OAAs from last week
- Match students with partners to discuss their answers for the section titled, “What is it?”
- Instruct students to use a highlighter to find contextual evidence in the passage to support all answers and/or to disprove possible answers that can be eliminated.
- Regroup as a class to call on volunteers to share answers & contextual evidence (correct them as we go along)
- Update Results Log with “What is it?” score (4 multiple choice questions + 2 short response = 6 pts)
- Turn-in before end of the period
- Distribute and begin Watsons Go to Birmingham Book Preview/Scavenger Hunt” to be completed independently and/or with someone else who has a book.
HW:Wednesday, 1/23/13
Daily Objective:
“I will…
- Understand the historical background in Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963
- Predict what the book will be about, based on its time period, background knowledge and the cover’s illustrations.
Procedure:- Copy HW into agenda
- What is/are today’s objective(s)?
- Assign new quarter seats.
- Share and discuss responses to the “Book Preview/Scavenger Hunt” for Watsons
- Choose volunteers to read “In Memory of Four Little Girls” (class copy of article)
- Discuss main ideas, reactions, and predictions as to why our author of Watsons wrote this book in memory of those four girls—What’s the connection?
- Discuss background knowledge of Civil Rights Movement.
- Read and discuss “Background- Civil Rights Movement”
HW:Thursday, 1/24/13
Daily Objective:
“I will…
- Assess U5P2 Word Wisdom understanding & preparedness for tomorrow’s quiz
- Understand the historical background in Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963
- Analyze the writer’s inspiration for writing the book
Procedure:- Copy HW into agenda
- What is/are today’s objective(s)?
- Check WW pages 100-105 with a student leader volunteer (while I come around to stamp)
- Finish reading “In Memory of Four Little Girls” and/or “Civil Rights Movement” articles from yesterday, if necessary.
- Distribute Watsons Pre-reading Discussion/Activity handouts and assign students alternating numbers (1 or 2)
- #1s will create an outer ring/circle around the room
- #2s will mirror #1s (face them) on the inside of the circle
- Students will have 1-3 minutes to discuss a discussion question (determined and called out by the teacher) on the handout. When the bell is rung, #2s will move one space to the left while #1s remain in place. The process will repeat until all 7 questions are discussed and/or time is up
- Return to seats and choose on small selection of student to describe their experience, favorite question and response.
- Distribute “Christopher Paul Curtis, Biography” handout—call on volunteers to read. Pause to highlight specific connections that need to be remembered for later.
- Begin reading/listening to Chapter 1 of Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963.
HW:Friday, 1/25/13
Daily Objective:
“I will…
- Demonstrate mastery of U5P2 words used in context
Procedure: